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“Waking Giant” is a terrific introduction of succinct length to a period in our history, the time between the end of the age of the founding fathers and the beginning of the Civil War era, that was once ignored.

August 11, 2002, Sunday

HINDSIGHT, of course, brings great clarity. We look back at the technological advances of the late 18th and 19th centuries -- from the steam engine and the railroad to the telephone and the automobile -- and speak of the Industrial Revolution without...

SOME nuggets from the Department of Intriguing Trivia: the British imported ketchup into America from Asia. Graham crackers are named after an eccentric health reformer, Sylvester Graham. Bank of America started out in life as the Bank of Italy....

JOHN STEELE GORDON did not pass judgment on the Internet in his book, ''The Business of America.'' In a recent interview, however, he did have some things to say about dot-com mania and its historical precedents. WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN Q. How...

August 26, 2001, Sunday

To the Editor: It seems to me that both Stephen Sondheim and Ned Rorem missed the boat slightly in their discussion of the difference between opera and musicals [''Musical or Opera: Which Is It?,'' April 30]. That difference lies not so much in...

May 14, 2000, Sunday

To the Editor: Steven Zeitlin says that ''Ira and George Gershwin drew on folklore and oral tradition for their masterpiece, 'Porgy and Bess' '' (Op-Ed, April 25). One can argue about how long copyright should last, but authorship is forever....

To the Editor: Your Nov. 21 London Journal on the 50th wedding anniversary of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip notes that a new poll ''showed that only one in five young people thought the monarchy important, while overall backing for the royal...